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List of Illustrations
| PAGE | |
| "He carried it home on his shoulder" (See [page 92]) | [Frontispiece] |
| "He was so fat that her back often ached" | [18] |
| "Here Karim sat all day" | [37] |
| "Dada and Karim started very early" | [49] |
| "The sun rose when they were half way over" | [50] |
| The Governor's Palace | [81] |
| "Putting the paper on his knee as he sat on the floor" | [118] |
| A Kurdish Shepherd | [130] |
| Sheikh Tahar and His Horsemen | [150] |
| Karim and His Bride | [164] |
Our Little Persian Cousin
CHAPTER I
KARIM ARRIVES
Every one in the house of Abdullah was smiling on the day when a boy was born. Even Ashak the donkey, as he was bringing big bundles of wheat from the field, did not get half as many pokes as usual from the nail pointed stick that took the place of a whip, and was actually let alone for a whole afternoon to eat the dead grass and crisp thistles by the roadside.